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Month: March 2014

This is a great, great short film.
“Room 8 is one of five films based on the same script that formed part of Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series 2012.”
Directed by James W Griffiths.
Hat tip to Bonnie P. and Richard R.

This has been making the rounds but it’s definitely worth a look.
“This Is a Generic Brand Video is a generic brand video of ‘This Is a Generic Brand Video,’ written by Kendra Eash for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. No surprise, it’s made entirely with stock footage.”

Created by Immortal Arts, and kind of freaky.
“it was that much fun playin arround with the benchmark classroom and octane that i built my own – little more detailed – complete new classroom for some playarrounds…”

“Based on Steven Jay Schneider’s incredible book series, this video contains 215 extra titles as well. This epic little monster took me one year to the date to finish.”
Expertly done.
Sent in by Traci T.

These look amazing. This is a collection of shots of several wind-powered automated walking machines being set off along a beach somewhere. They look incredibly intricate, and chaotic, and so beautiful.

“This data visualization was created from real flight data. It shows the air traffic which flies on a typical summer day and highlights the intensity of the operation in Europe – an operation which runs 24x7x365.”
Beautiful!

Title translates to “Man vs. Machine – Ulf Hoffmann Table Tennis Robot”
“After 2 years of development, we are very happy ad proud to present our DIY ping pong robot UHTTR-1, which is currently only able to play in passive mode.”
I for one welcome our ping-ping playing robot overlords.
There is also an interesting blog covering its development.

“Life After Pi is a short documentary about Rhythm & Hues Studios, the L.A. based Visual Effects company that won an Academy Award for its groundbreaking work on “Life of Pi” — just two weeks after declaring bankruptcy.”
This is definitely worth a look. CGI is a crazy industry.

“Abandoned by his flock, Bigbird the pelican stumbled ashore after a storm and was taken in by the staff of Greystoke Mahale in Tanzania. Watch as Bigbird learns to fly for the first time.”
This was sent in by numerous subscribers, and is already at 1.03 million views, but I’m linking it anyway. It’s great.